The Business Case for Green Chemistry - by Glenn A Hurst & James H Clark (Hardcover)

About the Book

With contributions from large and small companies, established and new businesses and different countries, this book offers a valuable perspective on how important green chemistry is to industry.

Book Synopsis

Green chemistry has now been around in the academic world for some thirty years but the biggest impact it can have in terms of reducing pollution and waste and moving towards the greater use of safe and sustainable chemicals will be in industry. This book provides a series of views from industry on the importance of green chemistry, both in terms of current and future activities in their businesses.

With contributions from large and small companies, established and new businesses and from different countries, this book provides a valuable in-house perspective on how important green and sustainable chemistry is to industry. Chapters emphasise the benefits to businesses of adopting green chemistry, including reduced costs and new business opportunities, and how these justify the additional costs of adopting new processes.

About the Author

James Clark is Professor of Chemistry at the University of York, and Director of the Circa Renewable Chemistry Institute. He is also Chair Professor at Fudan University in China. He started the award-winning company Starbons Ltd as well as Addible Ltd. and he is now involved in commercialisation of green technologies worldwide. He was founding scientific editor of the world-leading journal Green Chemistry and started the international Green Chemistry Network (more recently the Global Green Chemistry Centres, G2C2). He is editor-in-chief for the RSC Green Chemistry book series. He has led many projects leading to commercial successes including new commercial bio-based solvents and materials. His research work and his work on education has led to numerous awards including Honorary Doctorates from universities in Belgium, Germany, Portugal and Sweden as well as prizes including the 2018 RSC Green Chemistry Prize and the 2021 European prize for Sustainable Chemistry. He has also won awards from the SCI, EU and other organisations for his work at the industry-university interface. He has published over 700 articles (h index 95) and written or edited over 20 books.

Glenn Hurst is Professor of Green Chemistry Education at the University of York. His research interests lie within chemistry education, specialising in adopting systems-thinking approaches within all levels of green and sustainable chemistry education. He acts as an advisor to the United Nations for incorporating green and sustainable chemistry into education at all levels across the globe while being on the leadership committee for the Green Chemistry Teaching and Learning Community platform to shift towards an international community of transformation within green chemistry education. He was recognised by Jisc as one of the top ten social media superstars in higher education in 2017, was a finalist in the Times Higher Education 'Most Innovative Teacher of the Year' in 2018, highly commended for 'Teaching Excellence' in the Educate North Awards 2019, won the American Chemical Society Committee on Environmental Improvement Award for Incorporation of Sustainability into Chemistry Education in 2019, won the Royal Society of Chemistry Higher Education Teaching Award 2020, a National Teaching Fellowship in 2021 and a JoVE Innovation in Instruction Award 2021. He works as part of numerous editorial boards to include the Journal of Chemical Education.